Bordeaux
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Argentinian Blend Really Easy to Like
Grape Sense Blog &bull Yesterday
Clos de los Siete is a blend from Argentina that is reasonably price, with big forward fruit, soft tannins, and easy to enjoy. The wine is a blend of Malbec (48 percent), Merlot (28 percent), Syrah (12 percent), and Cabernet… Full Story »
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Wine on the Rocks Interview with Thomas Duroux
Cellar Blog &bull Mar 13, 2010Thomas Duroux is the CEO of Chateau Palmer, one of the most well-known wines of the Medoc region in Bordeaux.Wine on the Rocks has a good interview up with Duroux. In the 5 minute segment, Duroux talks about the blending… Full Story »
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China becomes biggest export market for bordeaux wine outside EU
Topix: Wine News &bull Mar 11, 2010
China has become the biggest export market for bordeaux wines outside the European Union as overall exports have collapsed due to the economic crisis and a strong euro put some wines beyond US and British buyers. Full Story »
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Mobile Holmes The very best argument for screw cap wine
robertholmesphotography.com via @photofeeds &bull Mar 8, 2010When the Myanmar Vineyard Management Company released their first wines 5 years ago they failed to anticipate the problem their customers would have uncorking them. Burma has never had a wine culture and there was scarcely a corkscrew to found… Full Story »
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Bordeaux First Growth Mouton Rothschild presents label for 2007 Bordeaux Vintage
The Bordeaux Wine Experience &bull Mar 5, 2010A little history lesson For every vintage since 1945 a famous artist has created an original artwork for the Chateau Mouton Rothschild label. In 1924, to commemorate the first vintage entirely bottled at the chateau, Baron Philippe de Rothschild asked… Full Story »
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Mouton Magnum Auction Supports Haiti Relief Efforts (Wine Spectator)
Wine Spectator: Blog Posts &bull Mar 5, 2010
The late Haitian artist Bernard Sejourne designed the label for the 99-point 1986 Mouton. Two magnums donated by the chateau garnered $7,400 for Haiti relief efforts. Wine lovers tend to be a generous lot: How else to explain the tens… Full Story »
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Crushpad Hits The Big Time
Serious About Wine &bull Feb 17, 2010Custom winery Crushpad has been in San Francisco for six years but the entrepreneurial start-up will finally have a Napa winery to call its own. The company is moving into a winery in the Oak Knoll District called Silverado Trail… Full Story »
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2007 Maculan Brentino
Los Angeles Times Food &bull Feb 17, 2010
Taste Fausto Maculan's beautifully crafted blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and you'll be forgiven for guessing it's a $50 wine. Not. Astonishingly, this suave Bordeaux-style blend is less than $20. This 2007 from the Veneto is intense… Full Story »
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Wine of the week: Chateau Causse Rouge 2006
The Wine Curmudgeon &bull Feb 17, 2010
The Wine Curmudgeon is always on the lookout for cheap French wine, and especially red Bordeaux, that tastes like French wine. Sadly, too much inexpensive French wine has been tarted up for American palates -- all fruit, no structure -- or made… Full Story »
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G'day mate... want to taste a 97?
Wine Expedition &bull Feb 15, 2010
That said, I have to talk about a unique bottle that I discovered at a wine tasting not long ago, and the fact that it received a 97 from wine critic Robert ParkerYou dont see too many 97s out there.… Full Story »
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An Affordable, Tasty Bordeaux Merlot-Based Wine
Grape Sense Blog &bull Feb 15, 2010
I'm not a big fan of Merlot. Okay, that makes me a cartoon character in a bad animated wine movie I guess. But I've never been a fan, even before seeing "Sideways." But last summer I was in Kahn's, Indianapolis,… Full Story »
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San Diego Bordeaux
Brooklynguy's Food and Wine Blog &bull Feb 14, 2010
We're in San Diego for a little while visiting BrooklynLady's parents. The weather here is a little bit different from what we've had in NYC. Eucalyptus tree in the backyard, bright sunny day. My father in-law, or pop-pop, as my… Full Story »
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Rieslings to be cheerful
Surf4Wine &bull Feb 12, 2010
A post in honour of our very own Mr. Riesling, Stephan Mohr I just had a wonderful chat with Stephan just a few moments ago on the merits of blogging, or not in his case - he's just signed up for Facebook… Full Story »
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Wine Glut Boosting Quality of Lower End Wines
Grape Sense Blog &bull Feb 12, 2010
I wrote a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to add more wine news and such here. Today I saw a story that really is a must read for real wine enthusiasts. There are lots of interesting things happening… Full Story »
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Celebrate the Chinese New Year with this delicious seafood supper
Matching Food and Wine &bull Feb 12, 2010
An easy-to-organise feast from my book Food, Wine and Friends Full Story »
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07 Cuatro Pasos, Mencia
750 mL &bull Feb 12, 2010
Listen. Come close. So, now tell me. How's my breath? Well, yours is pretty terrible, too. But we'll talk some, eat a few tapas, and, I promise you, make out before the moon turns the night blue. Because anything off… Full Story »
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Hungarians Worth Knowing
New York Times - The Pour &bull Feb 9, 2010Getting to know dry Hungarian wines. Full Story »
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Bordeaux 2009 according to Simon Staples
Bordov Review &bull Feb 9, 2010
This is the first time that I will copy a complete text from someone else into a posting. And why not if it's interesting? I received the message per e-mail from the world's biggest en primeur buyer Berry Bros. & Rudd in the United Kingdom. Besides that they have many great names from Burgundy in… Full Story »
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Tasting: Caronne Ste Gemme Vertical
The Winedoctor &bull Feb 9, 2010
I tasted some recent vintages, from 2007 back to 2000. Full Story »
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1984 Cabernet Retrospective
Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley wines &bull Feb 6, 2010
Photo by Richard Jennings Local wine collector Ross Bott organises a wine tasting group that meets twice a week. Last Thursday's theme was a retrospective of Cabernet Sauvignons from 1984. Now my experience of older wines is limited, and that's putting it mildly, so I was very interested to try them; particularly when I saw the wines in the line-up. Each taster… Full Story »
